Chapter 620, African War Situation 15,
"Oh my God, what's that?" "Oh my God, rocket launchers that can go to the sky?" "Not good! This should be the rocket artillery mentioned in the intelligence! "Quick! Full speed assault! "I finally rushed through the area covered by the heavy artillery, but suddenly I saw a dense rocket artillery rising from the sky in the distance. Both the Germans and the Italians could not help but exclaim, it was the first time in their lives that they had seen such a dense artillery shell. Although many ordinary officers and soldiers have never seen this new type of artillery, they are not stupid, and as soon as they see this posture, they know that it must be a bad person.
But what can be done then, at this time, in addition to struggling to rush forward and rush into the position of the Huaxia army, is it possible that they can still turn around and run away like this? As a result, after a little weighing, the German-Italian army, which had no way out, became more and more violent, and started a wave of outlaws under the orders of commanders at all levels. Whether it is the main battle tank, or the armored vehicle, or the motorized troops, they are all full of strength and desperately charged. Because they knew that the shells fired by the Chinese artillery would not be thrown indiscriminately on their own positions, and as long as they rushed within 100 meters, they would not have to worry about being covered by large-scale artillery fire.
The mechanized troops charged up, and they were really fierce enough, although they were three or four kilometers away from the Tiger Army's position at the moment, but under the full speed sprint, they could rush into the position in five or six minutes at most. "The enemy is starting to sprint at full speed! Quickly pass the order, immediately organize fire to intercept it, and don't let their tanks and armored vehicles rush in. ”
The previous wave has not been completely wiped out, and there is a big wave behind, and the commander of the 7th Brigade, Nie Qingshi, is a little anxious when he sees it. Although before the start of the war, the officers and men of the 7th Brigade had already done their homework at the front of their own positions, not only laying a large number of mines, digging anti-tank trenches, and hiding and camouflaging a large number of 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, but also building many pillboxes and batteries. However, after the desperate fight of a large number of vanguard units of the German-Italian coalition forces before, the mine arrays on the positions of the 7th Brigade were destroyed, not to mention, and many anti-aircraft guns were also destroyed in the battle.
In addition, there were still many enemy soldiers on the position, hiding behind craters and bunkers to shoot at themselves, pinning down a large part of the troops. These enemy mechanized troops who are fighting hard with themselves are not comparable to pure infantry units, they are not only fast in charge, but also very strong in defense, and can cut into the position in a short time without effective blocking! And let them fight with themselves hand-to-hand, then things will be quite difficult, and if you don't die, you have to peel off your skin.
"Quick, aim for me!" "Fire!" There was no need for Nie Qingshi to worry about it at all, the artillery and mortars erected in various positions had already started the rampage mode, and shells of various calibers beckoned to the enemy without money. Soon a series of explosions continued to explode in the formation of the enemy army!
Although the damage value of these shells is not low, constantly knocking enemy tanks and armored vehicles into their nests, they cannot completely stop the advance of this wave of steel. These steel bodies are constantly magnifying in the retina, and the distance is getting closer and closer. The bazooka fighters and infantry are also ready for battle, and they will fight this powerful enemy army to the end with red eyes. Boom!
After a few minutes of flight, a full 800 rocket shells finally landed one after another like a meteor shower at the front of the 7th Brigade's position. The violent explosion crackled and exploded wildly, like a string of super electric light artillery, with a high frequency of explosions that made a series of earth-shattering explosions, making it impossible to tell how many shells had exploded.
At this moment, although the landing point of these rocket shells did not fall in the best position, and could not inflict a devastating blow on the enemy's armored cluster that the main force had already rushed within 500 meters, they still dealt a lot of damage. This wave of concentrated fire has cut off the tail of the German-Italian alliance cleanly! "Oh my God, this is so scary!" "My God, who can stop such a dense and powerful artillery!"
"Even-bought Ka, fortunately we rushed over!" Dozens of tanks were directly exposed to piles of scrap metal, hundreds of enemy soldiers were directly turned into minced meat, and the earth-shattering explosion deeply shocked the German-Italian troops charging ahead. When they subconsciously looked back, they couldn't help but shudder, and they were really frightened by everything in front of them! However, the effect does not stop there.
After all, people grow up, not scared! In the current moment of life and death, where you die or I die, everyone has no time to think about fear and fear death, and the only thing they have to do is to kill the enemy who threatens their lives by all means. So after a short period of astonishment, the German-Italian army began to kill the Tiger Army position on the gentle slope again.
"Kill!" "Beat me hard!" Light and heavy machine guns and assault rifles rang out, and strings of bullets intertwined into an impenetrable metal storm. At this time, the machine gunners could no longer care whether the bullets they fired could penetrate the metal armor of the main battle tank and armored vehicle, and whether they could sweep the enemy soldiers. Anyway, it's just a matter of firing frantically and using all means to stop the enemy's attack.
The soldiers with rifles pointed their guns at the heads of the enemy who had already begun to jump off their motorcycles and follow the tanks and armored vehicles forward. Naturally, it was impossible for the German-Italian coalition forces to sit idly by, and they had already turned on the design mode as soon as they entered the effective firing range, and the main tank guns, vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and other weapons had already opened fire on the Burmese troops in the front positions. At a short distance of a few hundred meters, it is only a few tens of seconds for a tank or armored vehicle charging at full speed.
Soon, tanks and armored vehicles rushed into the front line of the Burmese army's position under artillery fire and bullets, and the tragic hand-to-hand encounter was inevitable again. "Quick! Fast! The enemy's armored units have already broken through to our positions, and the infantry brothers are in dire need of our fire support! After receiving the order, Tao He, the captain of the Il-2 ground attack plane, immediately led the flight group of his headquarters to take off from the air base and fly over the Matru fortress at the fastest speed.
And when he came to the position of the 1st Army, it was clear that there had been hand-to-hand combat on many positions, the enemy's armored forces were raging wildly on their own positions, and the infantry were relying on their positions to put up the most stubborn resistance. Although the infantry of the Tiger Army is armed to the teeth, and there is no shortage of various anti-tank weapons, it is clear that they are still suffering from these steel torrents, and the casualties are constantly expanding.
"Don't let me die yet!" Seeing this, Tao He's eyes immediately turned red, and without saying a word, he directly pressed the nose of the plane and began to dive and strafe, aiming the barrel at a German tank that was firing at the Tiger Army battery. Bang bang bang! The Vickers 40mm S-gun spewed out a long tongue of fire at the same time, and the two bullet lines rained down like a torrential rain.
Almost at the same time, a series of crisp metal crashes followed, and immediately a hole the size of an unknown egg appeared in the steel body of the tank.
The Type 5 armor-piercing shell, which weighed 3 pounds, could penetrate 50 mm of armor at a 30-degree angle, and could damage most German armored targets except the Tiger tank. The roof armor of the No. 4 tank in front of him was only 10 mm, and even the thickest frontal armor was only 50 mm, so naturally there was no way to resist the volley fire of the Vickers 40 mm S-shaped gun.
Even for a thick-skinned Tiger tank, the turret roof is nothing more than 40mm E22 nickel-chromium-manganese rolled steel, and there are many weak points on the top. With a bit of luck, the Vickers 40mm S-gun armor-piercing shells can also do a lot of damage. The Il-2 ground attack aircraft was originally a famous tank killer, widely used in low-altitude fire support for the army, and was considered the best ground attack aircraft during World War II.
And Jiang Qiang converted the original 23mm cannon into a powerful Vickers 40mm S-type gun, which naturally means that the stronger the stronger. In the absence of fighter escorts, these ground armors are completely a herd of lambs to the slaughter. Even though there is no shortage of anti-aircraft machine guns in these tank armor clusters, it is a pity that the main parts of the Il-2 ground attack aircraft, such as the cockpit, engine, cooler, and bomb bay, are protected by armor plates, and have strong battlefield survivability.
It's really not these less powerful anti-aircraft machine guns that can easily inflict substantial damage. What's more, in a high-speed dive, it is not easy for an anti-aircraft machine gun to accurately hit the target. "Kill!" "Give me death!" Naturally, the rest of the pilots were not idle, and they locked onto the target one after another and began to dive and strafe, aiming at the enemy tanks, armored vehicles, and even enemy soldiers on the ground who were rampage through the positions of the Burmese army.
Strings of caliber ammunition hit the thick armor, splashing dazzling fires and striking shocking holes. One tank after another, tanks and armored vehicles were penetrated and knocked down, and even a number of them were directly exploded, turning into a pile of burning scrap metal. Although the two 7.62 mm ShKAS aviation machine guns with full firepower could not penetrate the armor, they were very lethal to the ground personnel and targets.
"Even-bought karma! How can these damn ground attack aircraft be so powerful? "Not good, our anti-aircraft machine guns simply can't do damage to these aircraft!" "What should we do now, we are completely passively beaten!" "Quick, send a telegram to the headquarters requesting air support!" Dozens of Il-2 ground attack planes entered the battlefield strongly, causing great damage to the German-Italian attacking troops at once, and it was completely a one-sided slaughter of the tiger into the flock.
This completely blinded the German-Italian coalition army, and it was scared! Although they had suffered heavy casualties before, they were able to exchange their lives for lives and deal effective damage, but now they all felt deeply powerless and frightened in the face of this group of frantically raging ground attack aircraft. For the front-line soldiers who have long had their heads pinned to the waistbands of their pockets, death is not the most terrible thing, the most terrible thing is the senseless giving away of heads!
"Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived!" "Haha, the Air Force brothers are here to support us and kill all these dogs!" "Avenge the dead brothers!" "Don't leave one, kill!" On the contrary, the officers and soldiers of the Tiger Ben, who were in the midst of a bitter and bloody battle, were greatly boosted, and they were suddenly full of strength as if they had been beaten with blood.
In a moment, all kinds of things were louder, and the powerful firepower network smashed the enemies who were still panting in front of them into a sieve and blasted them into smithereens, and annihilated them one by one. "Brothers, rush up and fight with those dogs! Fast! "Finally it's our tank regiment's turn to fight, brothers, charge!"
"Raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while, kill them!" "Gentlemen, the abominable enemy has been beaten, and now it's up to us to make the final decision on our armored clusters!" "Gentlemen, for the glory of the soldiers, for the peace of mankind, for the sake of victory, charge!" "Let those damn Germans know that we are not to be messed with in the British Empire!"
"God will bless us!" "It is God's will to annihilate the evil enemies and send them to hell!" When the enemy armored clusters and motorized units collided with each other, the tank units hidden in various positions finally showed their fangs, and soon, hundreds of tanks of all kinds were disguished, ignited their engines, and slaughtered into the fiercely fighting battlefields all over the Matru Fortress with the sound of rumbling motors and invincible momentum.
Whether it is the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the British Army, the American Army, or the British Empire Servant Army, which has little sense of existence, they are all turned into tigers descending from the mountains at this moment, no longer afraid or afraid! Soon the needles were on Maimang, and the tanks and armor of the enemy and the enemy were scuffled, and the infantry and infantry were scuffled, and there were gunshots, cannons, and explosions everywhere. After five hours, the defensive battle of the Matlu fortress finally reached its climax, and two or three hundred thousand soldiers on both sides fought together, with us among the enemy and the enemy among us, and the battle was extremely fierce and tragic.
Duan Anguo finally got his wish and went to the front line to participate in the war, and personally served as the artillery commander responsible for the output of the C position. Boom, the huge steel body weighing 57 tons should not be too majestic to move, and the road had to tremble three times when it charged. "Brothers, kill! Hit me hard! "! Dry! Dry! ”
After racing for several kilometers, Duan Anguo and the others finally entered the battlefield that was unbearable, and when they saw the fierce battlefield in front of them, all the tank soldiers and brothers were screaming excitedly, as if they had seen a walking medal. "At seven o'clock, enemy tanks are aiming at us! Fast! "The observer quickly locked onto one of the most threatening armored targets." Roger that! "Understood!" The commander hurriedly began to take the S route to evade, while Duan Anguo put the crosshair on the opponent's chassis with extreme speed.
However, at this time, Duan Anguo saw the red light of the barrel of the opponent's black hole in the gun mirror. Needless to say, this is the opponent's first move. "Damn! See who dies first! Duan Anguo did not hesitate or be afraid, and immediately pressed the fire control switch. Boom, almost at the same time, an explosion sounded in my ears, and the 88-mm main gun of the Tiger tank flashed red, and an 88-mm armor-piercing shell rushed out of the barrel at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
As soon as Duan Anguo fired a shot, the shells fired by the enemy tank came one after another, and smashed into the head of the hull with a bang. This cannon was very strong, but fortunately it did not hit the weakest chassis and track parts, although it was so violent that Duan Anguo and others did not want it, but after all, it only stopped there. Boom, but the 88-mm tank gun, which was the last to strike, directly pierced and exploded the German tank on the opposite side, turning it into a pile of scrap metal that did not move.
"Hehe, Tuanza did a good job, it's so powerful, he killed a big guy with one shot!" The observer hurriedly lost no time in giving full praise. "It's average, it's mainly our Tiger tank! Brothers, keep going! Be sure to have a good time today. Easily and happily won the first kill and killed the legendary German tank, Duan Anguo's face was about to laugh.
If it weren't for the inappropriate scene, even if you didn't open champagne to celebrate at this time, you would have to take a branch of Huazi! However, Shuai was only three seconds, and not long after the words fell, the observer said with a trembling voice: "Tuan, Tuanza, no, it's not good." At eleven o'clock, several Tiger tanks arrived, and they were on a killing spree. Allied tank units suffered heavy losses,......"
"What?" Duan Anguo saw a fierce tank battle going on on the Gobi Desert a few kilometers away. Among them, the main characters on the battlefield are five German Tiger tanks and seven No. 4 tanks, and the supporting roles are the M3 medium tank and the M4 Sherman tank, which have a total of more than 20 tanks. At this moment, in addition to the more than 30 tanks that were fighting in the melee, in the huge area around them, I don't know how many tank wreckage were still lying on the ground. The billowing smoke that was still rising silently spoke of the cruelty of the battlefield and the devastating blows that these destroyed tanks had experienced before.
Although the number of Allied tanks was twice that of the German tanks, Duan Anguo could see at a glance that the Allied tank forces were in an absolute weaker position and were being destroyed by the German tanks. There is no way, if they don't face only the fourth tank, it is not false at all, but the German tank group still has five Tiger tanks, it is not something they can easily deal with.
"Damn the Germans, go see God now!" In a field a few kilometers away, British Lieutenant Johnson led a tank unit and, after a desperate charge, met a German Tiger tank. Since traveling with the army to North Africa, Johnson has not had a comfortable day in the past six months, first facing Rommel Afrika Korps, experiencing a series of setbacks, and being driven from Tripoli, Libya, all the way to Egypt.
Some time ago, Johnson was finally given a long vacation to go to Yemen to rest and relax, but because of "road rage", he couldn't hold back his temper and threw Duan Yinhua's camera for a while, causing a series of bloody cases. As the initiator, Johnson absorbed enough hatred and firepower output, was beaten one after another, and was finally beaten beyond recognition, completely unhuman, and almost had to return to the rhythm of rebuilding early.
Thanks to the fact that the Burmese army did not really kill him, otherwise even if Johnson was born in a noble family and was a lieutenant officer, it would only be a dead end. Later, Jiang Qiang "adults don't remember villains", and asked someone to send a special baibaodan to this troublemaker, so that Johnson was able to come back to life on the spot after lying in bed for half a month, leaving no sequelae.
Finally able to officially play today, Johnson can be said to be holding back his strength, determined to do a good job and play his dignity. Prior to this, Johnson, as the Sherman's main battle tank gunner, had already scored three kills and destroyed two armored vehicles and a No. 4 tank.
After yelling, Johnson did not hesitate to press the fire switch. Boom, immediately after the 76-mm tank gun flashed red, and a shell exploded straight out. Almost at the same time, Johnson clearly saw in the gun mirror that the side impact of the Tiger tank diagonally opposite was blown up by his own solid bombardment, and an extremely glaring fire.
"Ness! You're not dead yet! Seeing the first shot, Johnson waved his fist excitedly, confident that this shot had killed a big guy. The current Sherman tank uses the M72 armor-piercing projectile, capable of penetrating 60 mm/30° steel plates at a distance of 914 meters, which is slightly more armor-piercing than the 76 mm F34 gun of the earlier Soviet T-34 model.
At this moment, Johnson is no more than 800 meters away from the Tiger tank, and the effect will definitely be more ideal, not to mention the relatively weak flank armor hit this time, so Johnson is quite confident. However, the script did not go as he expected, only to see the barrel of the Tiger tank flash red, and a moment later an explosion was heard. Johnson followed the sound and was shocked to find that a Sherman tank directly opposite the Tiger tank was directly pierced and destroyed, turning into a pile of scrap metal with thick smoke.
What made Johnson even more stunned was that the Tiger tank not only took away a child with one shot, but also began to move without any, and the barrel of the black hole began to turn towards him. "Even, Shet! Why can't this ghost be killed at all, quick, move immediately, that ghost thing is eyeing us! "Johnson is really dumbfounded, Ni Mei, this is not a level opponent at all!
During World War II, the U.S. Army's Sherman Tank Asia was invincible, and almost a tank independent regiment could wipe out a tank division of the Japanese army. However, when they encounter the Tiger tank with thick armor and strong firepower, they can only become a bunch of vegetables, and in the face of the absolutely luxurious 100mm armor of World War II, the Sherman tank's 76mm main gun can only have a glimmer of life if it is close to or after attacking the side.
However, the 88mm gun of the Tiger tank can easily destroy the Sherman at a long distance, so theoretically speaking, in a head-to-head confrontation, three or five Shermans are not a Tiger opponent at all. From the time of service until the surrender of Germany, the Tiger tank was active on the front line of the battlefield, destroying a large number of enemy tanks. This made it a dangerous opponent for all Allied tanks, creating a permanent Tiger myth and being known as the Tiger Tamer for any Allied tank that was able to destroy or damage the Tiger in battle.
Later, the Allies also made a military rule: non-managerial commanders ordered that they should not engage them. And this time, many British and American tank crews encountered the German Tiger tank for the first time, although they had long heard the mythical story of this tank killer from their predecessors. However, what I heard and what I actually experienced are two different things, and because there is no "non-manager-level commander ordering not to engage with it" in the current military regulations, the tank soldiers who "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers" have staged this scene in front of them!
A bunch of freshly baked Sherman tanks, plus even more weak M3 medium tanks, came to hunt the Tiger with great interest and confidence, but they ended up being overwhelmed and grassed.